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Advocacy groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the decision by President Donald Trump’s administration to allow Arkansas to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients in the state. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – People who have traumatic brain injuries may be nearly twice as likely to die by suicide as individuals who don’t have a history of injuries like concussions and skull fractures, a large Danish study suggests. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – When people take daily pills to minimize their chances of getting HIV, they are also more likely to get routine care like flu shots and recommended screenings for common health problems, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – After sex, men can sometimes experience a myriad of confusing negative feelings, a phenomenon called post-coital dysphoria (PCD), which can interfere with relationships, researchers say. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – Adults who sleep too little or too much may have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke, say researchers who argue that the best way to think of the harmful effect is in terms of “excess heart age.” Reuters: Health News

Democratic Republic of Congo has started using the experimental mAb114 Ebola treatment on patients in the east of the country, the health ministry said on Tuesday, the first time it has been deployed against an active outbreak. Reuters: Health News

Many U.S. doctors don’t discuss the harms of lung cancer screening or the potential for overdiagnosis in conversations with current and former smokers about whether tests are necessary, two new studies suggest. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – The vapor from e-cigarettes may boost the production of inflammatory chemicals in the lungs, while disabling key cellular defenders against infection, a new study suggests. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – For decades, doctors have told parents to talk to kids as often as possible to help build speech and language skills. Now, a new study suggests that how parents talk to children may matter just as much as how much time they spend talking. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – When it comes to childhood obesity, sedentary behavior may be the most influential and controllable factor that parents can change, especially through managing screen time, according to a new American Heart Association Science Advisory. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – State laws designed to increase teen vaccination against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) don’t appear to influence adolescents’ choices about whether to become sexually active or use condoms, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News

Anglo-American biotech company Orchard Therapeutics has raised a further $ 150 million to fund its work in gene therapy, building on earlier fundraisings worth more than $ 140 million. Reuters: Health News

Amicus Therapeutics on Monday set an average price of $ 315,000 per year for its newly approved Fabry disease treatment, a price it believes is below that of the main existing treatment in the United States. Reuters: Health News

A Californian court finding that a Monsanto weedkiller caused cancer in a school groundskeeper sent shares in an Australian maker of a similar product, Nufarm Ltd, tumbling almost 17 percent to a more than two-year low on Monday. Reuters: Health News

A unit of India’s Hetero Drugs is recalling some batches of the blood pressure and heart medicine valsartan in the United States, a notice on the U.S. regulator’s website said, amid a wider probe into cancer risks associated with the drug. Reuters: Health News

(Reuters Health) – Most university students may plan to have children in the future, but they also probably overestimate how much time they have before their fertility starts to wane, an Australian study suggests. Reuters: Health News

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday that a second Chinese contract manufacturer, Zhejiang Tianyu, had produced a common blood pressure and heart drug with an impurity that could cause cancer. Reuters: Health News

A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $ 289 million in damages. Reuters: Health News